What is it about?
Social actors cooperate to get space available to establish renewable energy infrastructures, and to generate power together for their own use. This cooperation is essential to establish coproduction of renewable power, as well as creating fair options for decision-making on using space. The control is necessary to create a good match with the values people hold about landscape.
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Why is it important?
For deployment of Renewable energy a fundamentally new design of the power supply system is needed. RE has completely different characteristics compared to current power supply systems, which are centrally designed and hierarchically controlled. The emerging intelligent power grid will be socially and technically organized in an entirely different way. The conclusions of this review describe - some of - the required changes for abandoning the centralized characteristics of current power supply, in order to open up the possibilities for a new system avoiding the huge impact of the current system on climate change.
Perspectives
In society, and particularly among policy makers, huge misunderstandings exist on why and how our energy supply should and will be changed in this century. Policies usually implicitly assume it is possible to replace old technologies of power generation by new ones, without fundamentally adapting the way the power supply system is organized. This is a tragic mistake, and it is the reason why the deployment of renewable energy is moving very slow, particularly when compared to the speed that is required to limit climate change impact to the level needed keep global warming within 2 degrees C.
Dr Maarten Wolsink
University of Amsterdam
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This page is a summary of: Co-production in distributed generation: renewable energy and creating space for fitting infrastructure within landscapes, Landscape Research, September 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2017.1358360.
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Overview and access to full text of all my publication. Including the earliest of all papers on social acceptance of renewable energy innovation from the late 1980-ies.
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